Architectural Model Making - Beginners, Short Course Programme

There is something very special about little buildings - something both fascinating and beautiful.

Architectural models are the best way of communicating 3D ideas. Model building teaches you fine technical skills that are easily transferable to other disciplines and helps you understand design and visualise space. This practical course will help you to understand how to scale down, read technical drawings and find solutions to some of the challenges of model making. Classic model making tips and techniques such as skillful scalpel use, correct material choice, accurate measuring and cutting, gluing, sculpting, vacuum forming and spray painting will all be included.

You will be given a directed project, drawings and all the equipment to build a simple 1:100 scale model, with its own baseboard. You will follow the project from a pile of MDF and plastic to a professionally finished model. Photos of your finished work will be taken before you proudly carry it home. The course will therefore add new work to your portfolio and improve your CV. It will also improve your architectural knowledge and bring you satisfaction of a job well done.

No previous experience is necessary to attend this course, just plenty of enthusiasm. It is ideal for anyone interested in model making such as hobbyist, students, graduates and architecture professionals as well as theatre set designers, photographers and artists who will find the skills very useful in their own practice. There are very few courses like this around, even though architectural model making is a well established industry of its own.

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